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Do you
know what’s queer? Remembering forgettingIt’s
like looking into a hall of mirrors”Which one is
Percy?”
“Damned if I knowWhen she wants me to throw the
cookie-tin in the goldfish pond, she always
insists on putting a girl china in itUsually the
shepherdess with her face chipped off
“Did she say anything else?”
“She wanted food, I told youBy then she’d stopped looking at the
chinas, and she was getting confused again
Had she gotten confused because Percy wasn’t there?
Or the Perse? Maybebut if she’d ever had a
china boat, I’d never seen itI thought cartier men’s tank solo – not for
the first time – that Perse was a funny wordYou
couldn’t trust it
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Wireman said, “At one point she told me the table
was leaking
“And was it?”
There was a brief pauseThen he said, not very
humorously: “Are we having a little joke at
Wireman’s expense, mi amigo?”
“No, I’m curiousWhat did she say? Exactly?”
“Just that’The table is leaking’ But her chinas
are on a table-table, as you well know, not a
water-tableDon’t lose your good thoughts
“I’m trying not to, but I have to say you seem a
little off your conversational game, Edster
“Don’t bag by louis vuitton call me Edster, it sounds like a vintage
FordYou brought her soup, and she waswhat?
Gone again?”
“Pretty much, yeahShe’d broken a couple of her
china figures on the floor – a horse and a rodeo
girl
“Did she say ‘It’s leaking’ before or after you
brought her the food?”
“After, before, what does it matter?”
“I don’t know,” I said”Which was it?”
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“BeforeAfterward, she’d
pretty much lost interest in everything, including
chucking the Sweet Owen tin into the pond for the
umpteenth timeI brought the soup in her favorite
mug, but she pushed it away so hard coco chanel jewelry she slopped
some on her poor old armShe didn’t even seem to
feel itEdgar, why are you asking these questions?
What do you know?” He was pacing around with the
cell phone to his earI could see him doing itI’m feeling around in the dark, for
Chrissake
“Yeah? Which arm you doing it with?”
That stopped me for a moment, but we had come too
far and shared too much for lies, even when the
truth was nuts
“All right,” he saidI wish I
knew what was going on, that’s allBecause
something is
“Maybe something isHow is she now?”
“SleepingAnd I’m interrupting you
“No,” imitation louis vuitton cheap price I said, and tossed the brush aside”I think
this is done, and I think I’m also done for awhile
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Just walking and shelling for me between now and
the show
“Noble aspirations, but I don’t think you can do
itNot a workaholic like you
“I think you’re wrongWon’t be the first timeAre you
going to come down and visit with us tomorrow? I
want you to see it if she lights up againAnd maybe we could hit a few tennis
balls
“Wireman, there’s one other thingDid Elizabeth
ever paint?”
He laughed”Who knows? I asked her once and she
said she could hardly draw stick faux gucci bag figu